Seattle-based band Happy Heartbreak bursts into our studio during their February Feels Tour to regale us with hilarity from the road! The band is fronted by our friend and former San Diegan Craig Suede, a man who really knows how to mustache. We couldn't be happier to drink their whiskey and recruit their efforts to help us ruin our awful studio carpet. Get a tote for your emotional baggage, meet Harold the Troll, and have the back of your head featured in a Budget Rent-a-Car lifestyle photo.

Happy Heartbreak

In this episode we talk about every narcissist's favorite subject... us! (I'll wait...) We're gearing up for the third King Taylor Project tour, and we don't mind telling everyone all about it. We talk about internal markers of success, playing weddings, and the joy of being uncomfortable. Discover the "thingperscar" and have your name for The Choat rejected.

King Taylor Project

For this episode we invite San Diego chef and longtime friend of Sandi's, Craig Madden, to help us force upon our listeners inelegant comparisons between kitchen-ing and music-ing. Indifferent audiences destroy your soul. Baking destroys your kitchen. Craig destroys a mongoose.

Craig's service, Yard To Table Creations, on Facebook

Allen Hinds invites us to his home on a rainy L.A. day to drink some coffee and smell some whiskey. An accomplished touring and session guitarist with an incredible list of previous employers and collaborators, Allen is now enslaved by two mind-controlling house cats who keep forcing him to release his own projects, much to the world's delight. Allen gets a little apocalyptic. Laurel Canyon gets a little rain. Everyone gets a little whiff of peat.

Allen Hinds

This episode features Southern California singer-songwriter and radio host Zach Churchill with his producer and collaborator Nathan Kent, and includes a delightful appearance by Zach’s fiancée, Arina. Arina shares Russian Christmas traditions. Nate shares storytelling duties. Zach shares a friendship with an e-scammer. The gang shares a pizza, but you don’t know it… because… radio. This episode features an acoustic cut of “Bartender” from Zach’s upcoming record, performed by Zach and Nate, recorded live at Chinchilla Studio by davyrockett.

Zach Churchill

Singer-songwriter and manipulator of keyed instruments Josh Weinstein joins us for this episode. We explore Weinstein's experiences on the New York music scene, including his unconventional day gig as a writer funding a music habit, we get a taste of what it was like doing a record with G.E. Smith, and we even travel back in time to Josh's prenatal utopia. Sandi investigates Josh Weinstein's exile to California. Davy investigates how Weinstein babies are made. Josh Taylor investigates a few storks. Mama Sue investigates how to escape shackles.

Josh Weinstein

In our eighth episode, we take a few minutes to reflect on King Taylor Project's recent Personal Space Tour. We forego any guests and talk a bit about our life on the road as an independent touring band. Davy gets Pro Tools 12. Josh gets his Troys confused. Sandi gets our website wrong.

King Taylor Project

In our seventh episode, we invite Jesse Gawlik and Andrew Bache of Broken Stems to talk about the band’s first full-length album, What Are You Connected, their latest music videos, and Clydesdales (for some reason). Broken Stems deals it. Josh smells it. Sandi nails the intro. Davy plans a tour.

Broken Stems

In this episode, we are joined by Sven-Erik Seaholm, not to be confused with a seahorse. We zombie-pick the brainz of the veteran musician and producer and learn about some of his most memorable experiences on stage and behind the controls. Josh gets all nostalgic. Davy gets all arrangementy. Sandi gets all the cool segments. Sven gets all the Svennies. Someone's pants get all peed.

Sven's Kitsch & Sync Production

In our fifth episode, we ask Wayne Mealhouse what on earth possessed him to buy a dive bar in Spring Valley and cram diverse bands onto a tiny stage to play original music for surprisingly supportive pool-shooting patrons. East County gets multicultural. Wayne gets a cold. Davy gets creative with edits. Josh gets creative with introductions. Sandi gets creative with expletives.

Wayne's bar, De Oro Mine Company